Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally used tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude models without paying licensing fees. The lawsuit claims Anthropic downloaded millions of copyrighted works, including lyrics and sheet music, from pirate sites and scraped legal lyric databases, seeking damages potentially in the billions. The suit also accuses Anthropic of removing identifying information from songs to avoid proper at-